Wall Street Journal Crossword Clues and Solutions January 2 2024

ACROSS

• Newcastle Brown and Bass Pale for two
  ALES
• From 24-Across say
  ASIAN
• Gyllenhaal of Brokeback Mountain
  JAKE
• Despicable
  VILE
• Ward off
  PARRY
• Has bills to pay
  OWES
• Jane Austen’s title matchmaker
  EMMA
• Schemes
  PLOTS
• Gullible folks
  SAPS
• Coffee for the fashionable crowd?
  COOLBEANS
• Part of an eye or an egg
  WHITE
• Cable car
  TRAM
• Kingdom between China and India
  BHUTAN
• Coffee for the rich and famous?
  CELEBRITYROAST
• Opener for O’Riley or au rhum
  BABA
• Owned by you and me
  OURS
• Coffee for noisy dancers?
  STOMPINGGROUNDS
• Region
  AREA
• ___ a soul
  NARY
• Coffee for Magnolia Staters?
  MISSISSIPPIMUD
• Insertion marks
  CARETS
• Not fem. or neut.
  MASC
• Battery terminal
  ANODE
• Coffee for the careless?
  SLOPPYJOE
• Sheep-herding pig of film
  BABE
• Criminal singer Apple
  FIONA
• The original marked man
  CAIN
• Composer Stravinsky
  IGOR
• Top story
  ATTIC
• Soprano Jenny
  LIND
• Brooklyn basketballers
  NETS
• Irritable
  TESTY
• Fraternal order with lodges
  ELKS

DOWN

• With in Paris
  AVEC
• Wheels of fortune?
  LIMO
• Ticklish Muppet
  ELMO
• Elite Navy squadron
  SEALTEAM
• Come into view
  APPEAR
• Deli meat
  SALAMI
• Pressing need?
  IRON
• They may be liberal fine or dark
  ARTS
• Gov. Hochul’s domain
  NYS
• NFL quarterback Dobbs
  JOSHUA
• Eagerly anticipates
  AWAITS
• Continued doing
  KEPTAT
• German steel city
  ESSEN
• I shall return in online shorthand
  BRB
• Whatever person archaically
  WHOSO
• Boy is it cold!
  BRRR
• TV home of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite
  CBS
• Dig in!
  EAT
• Wall St. takeover
  LBO
• Party garb at Delta House
  TOGAS
• Onetime neighbor of Hung. and Bulg.
  YUG
• Frequent follow-up to cut or copy
  PASTE
• Crocus cousin
  IRIS
• Super Mario Bros. console
  NES
• Ride for a clown
  UNICYCLE
• 1960s-’70s war zone familiarly
  NAM
• R&B group ___ Hill
  DRU
• Pink Floyd co-founder Barrett
  SYD
• Get by somehow
  MANAGE
• Asimov work including the Three Laws
  IROBOT
• Passover feasts
  SEDERS
• Right away boss!
  IMONIT
• Francis’s office
  PAPACY
• Sony handheld console for short
  PSP
• Section worked by a flight attendant
  CABIN
• Location
  SITE
• A bunch
  LOTS
• It shares a Monopoly space with Just Visiting
  JAIL
• Pig’s grunt
  OINK
• What may justify the means
  ENDS
• Marbling in meat
  FAT